Late Tuesday a LITH Police officer on patrol noticed a garbage truck pulling out of Sunset Cartage and followed it. Homeowners near the Larsen Industrial Park on Pyott have been complaining about Sunset operations a lot this year and the village busted a loaded garbage truck there earlier this Spring.
"They didn't find any garbage trucks on our property," said Sunset VP and dispatcher Fred Amato. "The only time there are any garbage trucks here is when there's one that needs repair."
Well, no, said Village Administrator Jerry Sagona, Police didn't find a garbage truck at Sunset. What they found when they followed the truck was "several garbage trucks hidden in a (nearby) quarry." Public Safety Director Jim Wales this morning said there were a dozen of them in the nearby Material Services pit.
Sagona was irate. "What part of 'You can't park a loaded garbage truck in Lake in the Hills' don't they understand?"
Equally perplexing, why would anyone want to do that, anyway? Sagona said he suspects the transfer station which only began operations in April isn't working right. "It was supposed to be hassle-free," he said. "It hasn't been."
Waste Management spokesman Bill Plunkett Wednesday said it was literally the first he'd heard of the incident. In a 6 pm followup Plunkett told FEN the transfer station's working fine and the garbage trucks LITH found didn't belong to Waste Management in the first place.
"They were owned and operated by an independent trucker who transports waste from the transfer station to a disposal site," said Plunkett.
Really. And what was the name of the contractor?
"Sunset Cartage," said Plunkett.
In the pic: Collection trucks like this one take neighborhood garbage to the Waste Management transfer station here west of Route 31 where it's loaded onto bigger trucks for transport to distant landfills.
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